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  "description": "Are you living in a Fool's Paradise? - Ed Zareh, author, comic, improv artist - gives this TED TALK on Feb 11th 2026 at TEDxAsburyPark. + original music, comedy, improv, scenes, and more TED Talks. ",
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  "textContent": "Ed Zareh's TED TALK is Fool's Gold: The Value of the Ridiculous.\n\nReserve for next show\n\nEd Zareh, our TED Talk title speaker will explore the role of fools as a reality check in society, politics and culture... in **Fool's Gold: The Value of the Ridiculous.** A stand up comic himself, Ed is a graduate of and writer for the Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade.\n\nEd’s **award-winning** stage play, “Long Lost John” is based on John Lennon’s and Paul McCartney’s early friendship. After the play won the top prize at the Broadway Bound Theater Festival, it was developed into a Drama Therapy program to support bereaved youth and parents.\n\nEd enjoys writing articles on pop culture and music for periodicals like Culture Sonar. He’s a big fan of “immersive” storytelling and has studied, volunteered and worked with the innovative Third Rail Projects in New York. He’s been a lecturer at Monmouth University and at Liverpool Hope University, UK, where he speaks about the **Beatles’** impact on culture. When he’s not busy working on two upcoming books, Ed performs stand-up comedy in Brooklyn, NY.\n\n** _Fool’s Paradise_** will also feature live original music, three husband-and-wife performance teams, Ringling Brothers clowns, improvisation, audience participation, plus the wit of Shakespeare, Beckett and more.",
  "title": "Fool's Gold: The Value of the Ridiculous",
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